Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 57, July 2, 2009
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 7-2-2009 Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 57, July 2, 2009 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 57, July 2, 2009" (2009). Central Florida Future. 2241. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2241 FREE • Published Mondays and Thursdays Love a bit more Alpha Knight Company donates 40 , Softball's Renee Luers-Gillispie still percent of online profits 1 with the program she started-sEESPORTS,A to charity-SEE NEWS,A2 MUSIC ----------~- ., KING OF POP UCF cutba·cks result in CHURNED INTO • j fewer speech classes Iowa State Fair organizers announced Tuesday that they will have a statue of Michael Jackson, PRITAMSHAH UCF is having to drasti professor. who performed at the fair twice in Contrruuting Writer cally reduce the number of Rita Graham, the GEP 1971, made of butter. The sculpture overall sections offered by · and speech coordinator at will be on display with the annual Students may no longer the College of Sciences and UCF, said roughly l,000 stu butter cow,a popular attraction at learn to overcome speech the Nicholson School of dents are currently enrolled the event. Both will be in anxiety because UCF is cut Communication from 75 to in SPC 1608 and SPC 1603. a 40-degree cooler . ting back sections of speech 30 starting this year, said SPC 1608 is the new throughout the courses this summer and Boyd Lindsley,~ fundamen fair in August. · fall. tals of oral communication PLEASE SEE SPEECHES. ON A4 JUPITER IMAGES UNLIMITED Students CONTEST MAN WINS BAD struggle WRITING • • • .(J asmaJors Ashambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy face cuts whaler of Ellie May stood shoulders ,) above the rest in an annual bad writing contact.David McKenzie,55, Freshmen forced won the grand prize in San Jose State University's anhual Bulwer-Lytton into alternatives Rction contest.The contest invites JESSICA MARTIN .entrants to submit bad opening Contributing Writer sentences to imaginary novels. When junior Christopher Fisher got to UCF, he chose a major that interested hlm and began the four-year journey to gra<;luation. But about a month ago, Fisher hit a road block when the univer sity announced that his degree Breaking was on the list of proposed pro news on gram cuts. your cell "I, heard about the [budget] cuts through a Facebook mes Get UCF news sent to your cell sage asking me ifI knew that my phone. Just text the keyword major was being cut," Fisher UCFNEWS to 44636. said. ''I had no idea." UCF has proposed eliminat ing management information AROUND CAMPUS, A2 systems along with four other LEARN HOW TO MAKE majors as part ofits plan for han dling budget cuts. THE MOST OF YOUR As a result, many students KNIGHTLINK are now left in precarious situa tions. Some freshmen have dis Career Services will be hosting a covered that the major that they workshop to teach students how were set to pursue is no longer to make the most of Knightlink · going to be available, even benefits. Students can use it to find though it was their sole reason part-time and full-time jobs, post for coming to UCF. resumes and more. Facebook files: horror Students currently in the pro grams have to choose between Blow boring out of the stories from the Web selecting another major or water this Fourth of July switching schools to continue on LOCAL& STATE, A2 Updating your status can wait - read in their programs. SUSPECT SHOOTS AT with our guide to all our list of Face book rumors (both true Fisher was told that he had things fun and patriotic three options: continue on with OFFICER AND POLICE and false) to see how you can avoid the his ·major classes, change his to do in Orlando this ugly side of social networking. DOG IN ORLANDO weekend. major completely, or transfer to a Authorities in Orlando are searching PLEASE SEE GROUP ON A5 for a suspect they say shot at an officer and a police dog. Police said the officer was exercising the K9 on Wednesday just before 3 a.m. when shots were fired. Religious studies: teachers not preachers SGA makes plans JESSICA CAMPBELL . ical perspectives. Religion contexts ofthe world COUNTY APPROVES Contributing Writer- is examined historically, Schippert said that one SALE OF BONDS FOR through literature, psychol cannot study religion with for fall semester Do you go to church? ogy and philosophy. Stu out ·studying it through come talk to us," Kilbride MARLINS STADIUM What religion are you? dents learn about religious JERRIANN SULLIVAN These are questions that Contributing Writer said. "We want students to The Florida Marlins can start histories, religious cultures, feel comfortable." 1 are unimportant when pur PLEASE SEE STU DI ES ON A4 construction on their new different peoples' practices, While many students Currently, students are stadium. Miami-Dade suing a Bachelor of Arts and what reli degree in religious studies. juggle beach days with able to walk into the SGA commissioners voted 9-3 gion does biology class, some mem office and speak to repre From Moses to indiffer Wednesday morning to pay for the bers of Student Govern sentatives if necessary. sale of bonds for the ballpark. , Mohammed, all religions ent and all perspectives are ment Association are The present administra studied in the religious working full time during tion is planning for offi studies majoi: the summer to make cers to devote blocks of "The academic study preparations for the fall. time to sit in the student INDEX TODAY'S "We are getting every union during busier parts Around Campus 2 WEATHER of religion is inherently interdisciplinary," said thing ready for when the of the day. Students who Weather 2 students arrive," said sen are coming to the Union Local&State 2 Claudia Schippert, asso ciate professor of ior accounting major and for lunch will see the table Sports 6 I SGA Chief of Operations humanities and director and be able to stop and Michael Kilbride. Variety 81 of the religious studies speak with SGA members, Opinion 1o SCATTERED program. One of the tasks that Kilbride said. Oassifieds 11 T-STORMS requires planning is open "We are going to go to Students in the major office hours during ·the Sudoku 11 II 350 750 study religion in an aca them too," he said. "It is a school year. Crossword 11 , HIGH LOW demic context and look at it "We really want stu from different methodolog- dents to feel like they can PLEASE SEE POLICIES ON A5 A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com July 2, 2009 • wmat'1oriba:Jutun ! 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